. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . velers were plunged into a depth from which they might neverrise, and all these broken families came around the brink and seemed to cry out: Come back, father! Come back, my son! Come back, my daughter! Comeback, my sister! But no voices returned, and the sound of the feet of the dancersgrew fainter and fainter, and stopped, and there was thick darkness. And I said: What does all this mean ? And there came up a great hiss of whisperingvoices, saying: This is the second death ! THE EXPLORATION CONTINUED 89 TRANSPLANTED VICE But se
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . velers were plunged into a depth from which they might neverrise, and all these broken families came around the brink and seemed to cry out: Come back, father! Come back, my son! Come back, my daughter! Comeback, my sister! But no voices returned, and the sound of the feet of the dancersgrew fainter and fainter, and stopped, and there was thick darkness. And I said: What does all this mean ? And there came up a great hiss of whisperingvoices, saying: This is the second death ! THE EXPLORATION CONTINUED 89 TRANSPLANTED VICE But seated there that night, looking off upon that scene of death, I bethoughtmyself also: This is only a miserable copy of European dissipations. In Londonthey have what they call the Argyle, the Aquarium, the Strand, the beer-gardens,and a thousand places of infamy, and it seems to be the ambition of bad people inthis country to copy those foreign dissipations. Toadyism when it bows toforeign pretense and to foreign equipage and to foreign title is despicable; but. A HAPPY HOME toadyism is more despicable when it bows to foreign vice. Why, you might as wellsteal a pillow-case from a smallpox hospital or the shovels from a scavengerscart or the coffin of a leper, as to make theft of these foreign plagues. If youwant to destroy the people, have some originality of destruction ; have an Americantrap to catch the bodies and souls of men, instead of infringing on the patentedinventions of European iniquity. IF THE GOOD PEOPLE ONLY KNEW I also felt that if the good people of our cities knew what was going onin these haunts of iniquity, they would endure it no longer. The foundations ofcity life are rotten with iniquity, and if the foundations give way the wholestructure must crumble. If iniquity progresses in the next one hundred yearsin the same ratio that it has progressed in the century now closing, there will not 90 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK be a vestige of moral or reli
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